Wednesday, April 16, 2008

WE strongly condemn the act committed by the medical personnel of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City. The dastardly act by few medical personnel violates the basic principle of human rights: respect.

Those responsible should be held accountable for violating the right to privacy of the victim and should be brought to court so they can no longer do what they recently did.

We also extend our deepest sympathy to the victim, his family and friends. Now is the appropriate time to consolidate our ranks against systemic bias towards us.

Two things should be considered:

First, the incident is medical malpractice, pure and simple. Medical personnel nowadays are trained primarily to earn and not to serve. Such orientation contradicts what the medical profession is supposed to uphold.

While we agree that these people are just few, government and the public should not give space to individuals laughing at the expense of an innocent victim.

Second, the issue also exposed our misconception, bias and phobia towards members of the lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered (LGBT) community.

By laughing at and taking video of the victim, those responsible showed deep and historical bias towards us.

A society that degrades the LGBT community is not a free society. An individual or group of people who shamelessly disrespect the rights of others, particularly the LGBT people, is a product of a cruel society who breeds them.

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“What can I tell you of my past, gentleman (he is saying) I was born in a land where the idea of freedom, the notion of right, the habit of human kindness were things coldly despised and brutally outlawed. Now and then, in the course of history, a hypocrite government would paint the walls of the nation’s prison a comelier shade of yellow and loudly proclaim the granting of rights familiar with happier states; but either these rights were solely enjoyed by the jailers or else they contained some secret flaw which made them even more bitter than the decrees of frank tyranny…Every man in the land was a slave, if he was not a bully; since the soul and everything pertaining to it were denied to man, the infliction of physical pain came to be considered as sufficient to govern and guide human nature…From time to time a thing called revolution would occur…”
I could have dreamed of writing it, but I can’t, Vladimir Nabokov did in his book, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight.

Chop suey(Chinese:pinyin:zásuì; literally "assorted pieces") is aChinese dishconsisting of meats (often chicken, fish, beef, shrimp or pork) and eggs, cooked quickly with vegetables such asbean sprouts,cabbage, andceleryand bound in a starch-thickened sauce. It is typically served with rice but can become the Chinese-American form ofchow meinwith the addition of stir-fried noodles.

Like “binignit” usually eaten during Holy Week and best served when hot, I hope to make your stay in my site holy and hot. Hope you also experience the “taste” of vegetable “chop suey” and may your taste stands out — like mine.